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Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian
Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian (Venezuelan-American) is Director of the Department of Social Inclusion of the Secretariat for Access to Rights and Equity at the Organization of American States (OAS), where she is responsible for directing the work of the OAS in matters of social inclusion and access to human rights with special consideration to populations in vulnerable situations. She has edited, published and co-authored several articles and volumes on issues of Latin American reality, among her contributions is the Policy Brief "Creativity within the crisis: Legal Options for Venezuelan migrants in Latin America," with the Migration Policy Institute (January 2019), and the article “Where are the Women? Why Expanding our Understanding of Venezuela’s Humanitarian Crisis Matters,” published by the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (May 2020).
She is also a founding member and coordinator of the Network of Latin American Female Political Scientists #NoSinMujeres,” a project that seeks to promote, make visible and empower the work of women dedicated to Latin American Political Science. She is a regular columnist for the Venezuelan daily El Nacional, and for the Web portal Caracas Chronicles, as well as a guest columnist in various regional media.
In 2008, in 2016, and again in 2019, she won the Outstanding Performance Award granted by the Secretary General of the OAS, in recognition of her extraordinary work and contribution to the American organization. Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian has a Master's degree in International Relations from the University of South Florida and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Florida International University.